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Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25

SAM JONES recently preached four
days in Henry County, Kentucky, with
out making single convert. At the
close of his last sermon he remarked
"The sermon which I have just preached
Mt you was the one which converted
Sam small. I therefore thought it
ought to make at least one convert
here, but I had forgotten that this con-
gregation is composed of citizens of
Henry County,"
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25
The Soldiers Bible.
BY JAMES FRANKLIN F1TTs.

B o U Z the
middle of Au-
g u S t, 1864, ,
General Sher-
idan pushed
his army from
,Harper's Fer
ry up near
S ira 8 b rg.
Here we lay n
day or two;
a n d t h Q n,
q bout mid
n i g h t, W Q
W ere quietly
reused, put on
the march to
the rear, and
the next day
were back
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25

Mrs. KENDAL, the British actress,
has for some years been making $40, 900
a year. II began my career" she said,
"at 3 years of age; now I am 3S.
have known bitter poverty and great
trouble, but that is in the past. At 20
I was married to tho best and hand
soonest man in the world. We have
nothing in this world that we have not
bought out of our own earnings.
never accepted three-pence worth from
any one."
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25

DANIEL R. WoIrF, of Chambersburg,
Pa, lays claim to being the first COM
mercial traveller or drummer" in tho
United States. He went con the road
in 1874 for the dry-goods and notion
house of Dunton, Gemmill & Co., of
Philadelphia. Until 1S49 he Travelled
without samples, securing them from
country merchants, and then filling the
orders from samples received from Gus
toners.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25

The walls of ruined Mexican
church at Grand Quievera, N. NJ, are
three feet thicker at the top than at the
base. 1t is matter of tradition that
when the Franciscan friars abandoned
the pueblo during the revolution of
1850 they buried the bells and the
church treasure, and up to this time
they continue concealed from the eye of
the treasure-hunter and the archmlog-
ical fiend.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25

The Sultan of Johore has wonder
full palace near Singapore. Its wealth
and beauty rival the arabian Nights
tales splendor; and he is always will
ing to show his marvels to the many
strangers touching at his shore. He
entertains his guests at meals with food
served in golden vessels, which service
cost 100000. The regaia ho wears is
valued at $500, 900; sword Queen Vic
toria presented cost the neat sum OF
$4,000, and he delights to dazzle the
eyes of his enchanted spectators with
these wondrous visions of wealth.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25
She Saw n Sign.


No, ma'am, this house is not to rent, /"
he replied rather savagely. "Why did
you think it WASP"
Il saw a sign on the fence"
But it does not read 'to rent"
"I-I thought it did"
"That is a sign of post no bills
There's great difference, ma'am."
Yes, sir, excuse me. l ought to
have seen the difference, but the land
lord gave us notice this morning that
he would neither paper, paint, fix the
front steps. cement the cellar, repair
the roof, put in the broken glass, mend
the bell, sod the front yard, or make
an alley gate, and / Just pat on my
bonnet and rushed out to find another
house and spite him. - Detroit Free
PreSa
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25

NO CARDS" on wedding notice wor-
'ries mans club friends. MANY take it as
n gentle hint that no poker playing will be,
allowed 4
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25
Bold Boys Of Both Belligerents Tell Of
Battles, Bullets, Bayonets, and
Boiled Beans.
Soldiers and Sailors Stirring Stories
of Solid Shot and Screaming
Shells.
Missing.
pY MRS. II. W. HEATH.

When morning wakes in all its glory.
And earth is Allied with golden light
Tho heart wakes to its sad old story
More sad whom NIL the world is bright.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25

The ancient coronation chair at West
minister Abbey, the shrine of the tradi-
tional fragment of rock upon which
Jacob rested his head at Bethel, "the
stone of destiny" of the Irish kings,
brought by Edward L from Scotland,
and ever since used as the throne OF
succeeding English sovereigns, has
been restored" missing portions
of the chair having been replaced with
new work. and the new parts smeared
over with brown paint to give them a
spurious semblance OF antiquity.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25

AGE sefore beauty piece Of spring
chicken On pretty girls plate.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25

no wanders and some day returning,
Though old and bent we yet may SEQ
The brave light in his eyes still burning,
And tho same light heart that used to be.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25

But sometimes we nre wildly dreaming
That or some far-on sunny shore,
Where bright hued birds in sunlight beaming
Their songs are warbling DER and oer,
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25


Indiana in the not distant future will
be the great manufacturing center OF
the country and of the continent.
Two ENGLISH sparrows were building
their nests under the cornice in an
angle of the Court House, in Parkers-
burg, w. Va, when another bird, a
pugnacious cock sparrow squatter, un-
dertook to take possession. A noisy
fight, ensued, which is thus described
by the prosecuting attorney, who wit
messed it: "The plucky claim-jumper
was driven off half dozen times or
more, but returned to the attack and
kept up the fight for half an hour or
more, perhaps, when dozen or more
birds collected in the neighborhood of
| the nest, and when he came back again
they seized him and by some means
wound thread or string about his
neck and threw him over the edge of
the nest into space. The bird fell and
brought up at the end of the halter.
As he could neither release himself
nor find a spot on which to rest his feet
he was perforce compelled to fly back
to the nest. But around the edge was
Gordon of birds who threw him back
each time until, exhausted, he hung
limp and lifeless, strangled to death.
After the birds satisfied themselves of
fha Jae's
ment retired and the family went on
building its nest. The bird was left
hanging by the neck three feet below
the nest, and still hangs there as q
warning to other ornithological out
laws"
THE Russian Administration of Pris-
ons has just issued its report for 1885.
January l, 1885, there were "a, 4SS per-
sons incarcerated throughout the EN-
pire. In the course of year 703, ,254
entered and 697, ,769 individuals were
liberated, leaving residue of 99,973
still in prison. Women formed about
per cent. of the convicted Notwith-
~ NSip pull VI 6ill-
tary appliances in the iails, the rate of
mortality remained stationary OF the
$4,000 prisoners who were treated in
hospital, there were 2,1S9 men, GAG
women, and SAG children. In this re-
spect the Island of Saghalien stood in
the worst position, its sick list showing
total of 66 per cent. on the year, but
the number of deaths there is not
given. Diseases arising from humidity,
insufficient ventilation, and defective
sanitary arrangements are the chief
scourges of the state prisons. Among
the A, 4,029 persons who passed through
the prisons of st. Petersburg, 2,675
were accused of theft, 139 of political
offenses, one OF bigamy, and one of
apostasy. The largest number of
offenders belonged to the artisan class !;
not one is specified as peasant. The
expenses of the penitentiary service in
the whole empire amounted to II, 1885,
GA rubles, being diminution of 52l,-
239 rubles upon the expenditure of the
preceding year. This economy. was
partially effected by reducing the cost
OF the equipment of the prisoners.
There was falling off in the receipts
derived from the products of the
prisoners industry from 1873, $50 rubles
in 1884 to 103, ,536 rubles in 1885, More
over, the coal-mining company of
Saghalien, which is supplied with con-
vict labor, paid to tie State 1,456
rubles for the rights conceded to il.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25

in hurry. Gas is cheap fuel. Cheap
fuel is desideratum in manufacturing.
Manufacturing enterprises are sure to
come where there is cheap fuel, and
Indiana in the not distant future will
be the great manufacturing center of
the country and of the continent.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25

The day goes out in beauty cleaning
From hill.tops bathed in amber light,
While far below the wales are DREAMING
In the gray shadows Of the night
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25

There's One who has the care and keeping
OF every warriors unmarked grave;
Whether flowers bloom or winds arc sweeping
He still Is warden Ger the brave.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25

Birds that como from Southern roaming,
You bring new sweetness in your song.
Say, did you sit in the evenings gloaminS
And all these cheOry notes prolong?
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25
ARMY ANECDOTES.

ARMY ANECDOTES.
Bold Boys Of Both Belligerents Tell OF
Battles, Bullets, Bayonets, and
Boiled Beans.
Soldiers and Sailors Stirring Stories
Of Solid Shot and Screaming
Shells.
Missing.
BY MRS. II. w. HEATH.
When morning wakes in all its glory
And earth is filled with golden light.
Tho heart wakes to its sad old story
More snd whom NIL the world is bright.
And we ask is this same sun shining
Where our lost soldier s grave WAS made,
And are the flowers and vines entwning
The spot where the unknown ono WAS lald'
The dav goes out in beauty cleaning
From hill tops bathed in amber light
While far below the wales are DREAMING
In the gray shadows OF tile night.
Does this fair sunset. soft and glowing,
Light up the grasses tangled knot
Der where he sloeps no mortal knowing
Just where to find the uncared spot?
Birds TINT como from Southern roaming,
You bring new sweetness in your song.
Say, did you sit in the evenings gloamin2
And all these cheory notes prolong?
On q low bough Just DER him bending,
Through which the sunlight creeps all day
N.,.1r ,,lnt,. TO l,naN nCp nn1I
Until the night-dows hushed your lay
We read, so many killed in battle,
Wounded and bruised were many NOR.
A long line like wearied cattle
Driven to the prisons waiting door.
Ono namc-our hearts were wildly beating
Among tho missing. Oh, that word
Would he ever come with od-time greeting
Or WAS he lying beneath the sod?
But sometimes we are wildly dreaming
That or some fart off, sunny shore,
Where bright hued birds in sunlight beaming,
Their songs are warbling DER and o'er,
no wnnders, and some day returning,
Though old and bent, we yet may SEQ
The brave light in his eyes still burning,
And tho same light heart that used to be.
Whether he fell in battle dying,
His bones have whitoned or the plain,
Or in an unforgotten grave lying
Or lie beneath the heaving main,
There's One who has the care and keeping
OF every warriors unmarked grave;
Whether flowers bloom or winds aro sweeping
He still Is warden Ger the brave.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25

On low bough Just DER him bending,
Through which the sunlight crecps all day
Your roundeluys to heaven ascending,
Until the nightdews hushed your lay
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25

Ono namc-our hearts were wildly beating
Among tho missing. Oh, that word
Would he ever come with old-time greeting
Or WAS he living beneath the sod?
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25

We read. so many killed in battle,
Wounded and bruised were many NOR,
A long line like wearied cattle
Driven to the prisons waiting door.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25

Gen. Iohernaeif will succeed the late
Ratkofr in the editorship Of the Moscow Ga
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1887-03-05
Cmu- d'Alens Mining Notes

Spokane Miner: There is considerable
excitement in mining circles here in con-
sequence of the strong probability OF the
sale of the Sullivan and Bunker Hill
mines to eastern parties for S1,25o,00o.
These are the properties the product OF
which Governor Hauser has concentrate.
to the amount Of $4,000 tons. There is
perhaps no better property in the country
than these two mines-they certainly are
the wonder of the present Gay. Old min
ers turn away from inspection, convinced
that life is too short to waste time work
ing upon Indifferent Lodges in regions that
have proved no honanZas.
MIR. Jackson, one Of the kind OF nj
that would make any camp rich, bro
Ss33S worth Of gold up from the Gelatt
on Sunday, the result of Il weeks work
by himself on a lease of the bar across the
creek. Mr.. Jackson, it viii be remem-
bered, found the 1873 ounce nugget on the
Gelatt claim 10 the mid-wintar of 1885.
The "Mother' lode looks promising. In
the 55-foot tunnel rich free milling quartz
has been strucK-rich specimens are
promised. Mr.. Clark, who is prosecuting
the work, feels highly encouraged as time
passes. He is still firm III the ballet thai
this mine will prove n of the richest N
this section of country.
The "Mother" lode still holds out IN
richness. The last clean up gave an aras-
ira average Of S94.26 per ton. The result
was an amalgom retort OF 664 ounces and
was made from six tons OF ore. The bar
weighed 8 ounces and seven penny
weights, or at s16 per ounce would value
| $565.6O. The tailings, carrying gold un
saved, if saved, would certainly average
for the ore 800 per ton.
Two hundred tons of ore at an average
of 500 per ton, awaits shipment from the
| Wardner Junction. This is largely the
product of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan
mines for the past four months, which be-
ing but one-fifth Of the present capacity
would show pure silver at 500 per ton IN
10000 tons. As soon as the snow passes
! away all mines in this region will Work to
their fullest capacity, which will largely
increase the output.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1887-03-05
After the Pacific Railroad.

WASHINGTON Special: The senate pro
ceeded to the discussion of the house joint
resolution for an investigation OF the books
| of the Pacific railroads, with the senate
| amendment in the nature Of q substitute
| thereto. A discussion ensued. Mr.. Nc
Pherson commented on what he thought
the investigation would reveal. Branch
lines of the Union Pacific were being run
at the expense Of the main line n he
| predicted that the investigation would dis
| close a bigger Credit Mobilier than had
| existed in the original enterprise. He
| hoped therefore that the fourth section
would not be stricken out.
Vance spoke of the Union Pacific rail
| road as being conceived ia sin and brought
forth in inquiry. It has sought to get rid
| of the bad odor attached to it by eiectins
Mr.. Adams as its president; it had 81
for him in the mug'-1m r,ean altltt, IS al
ter George William Curtis and Carl Schurz
we're supposed to be sitting on a golden
CiOuu WitI udlpS III tutil llaido 5idSiiS
songs of purity concerning the new politl-
| cal scenes: but he had read i'll a Chicago
newspaper of Mr.. Adams conduct in ref
e to certain rolling mills and as to
charging four times the regular freight so
as to keep away competition, and it made
him think of the Negroes song, and that
darkey on the camp ground who con
cludes his song and shouts, Else goin' to
rob some hen roost before the week is
OUT
The substitute. after further discussion,
passed. 1t provides for the appointment
ment of three commissioners with a com
pensation Ct $3.50 a month, travelling ex
penses and board bill, with power to eX-
anime all books, papers and methods of
railroad companies. 1t specifies various
subjects of inquiry and requires the com
snissloners to report as to the extension of
time for the performance of the obliga-
tons Of the companies to the United States
and to submit a scheme for such extern
sion. 1t appropriates $4,000 for the pur-
pose of an Investigation.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1887-03-05
Northern Pacific Pluck.

The Northern Pacific management are
showing more pluck and energy, in the
completion of the Cascade branch, than
railroad companies are in the habit of do
ing. Up in the mountains the snohss are
deeper and the weather colder than II on
the p~rair1es Of the great basin region of
eastern Washington. Notwithstanding
this the work of construction goes vigor-
ously on, with large forces of men telling
forest trees, blasting granite, and basalt,
digging, hewing and laying ties and track.
Shipment after shipment of steel rails is
going over the road, and the gangs of men
up in the snow clouds, that sweep around
the mountain sides, brush aside the drifts
and lay the iron way. The feat of Napol-
con, in forcing his way with an army over
tue snow-clad Alps, was a small affair com
pared with the achievements of the Ame-
rican engineers. Ere the daisies bloom
again the shrill whistle OF the engines will
startle the mountain Businesses, and our
trains will go laundering through the
gateways of the Cascades to the sound and
the sea- Spokane Fats.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1887-03-05
Half Breeds in Manitoba.

In a recent number Of the Popular See
| ence NonthlY on the "Inter-mingling of
Races" John Reade has this to say of the
| half-breeds Of Manitoba: 1t was under the
| stress of such famine that the half-breed
| population of the Canadian Northwest,
| which has Of late been so much before
the world, grew to its present proportions.
It's history carries US back to near the
eighteenth century. Arthur Dobbs, whose
account of the countries adjacent to Hud-
son Bay was published in 1144, obtained
his information almost wholly from a
half-breed trader called La France-a
proof that the metis was not unknown a
century and a half ago. The explorations
of the Verandryes, father and sons, lasted
from 1881 to 1854. After the conquest of
Canada by Englsnd, the fur-trade ceased
for some years; but in 1865 the Montreal
ers began to push northumberland and from
that time their agents, mostly French
Canadians, mingled freely with the In
dians-the consequence being the growth
OF a half-breed community. There was a
considerable population of Bots Brules
for which they sometimes substituted the
more ambitious of the new nation") when
Lord Selkirk began his scheme of opera
ton to colombo in 1911. That even then
they were not all French is shown by
some Of their surnames being Scotch or
English. But it is from the years imme-
diately following the establishment Of the
Red River colony that the bulk of the
English speaking half-breeds date their
first appearance. In the year 1914 they
numbered 200. In 1870 the Manitoba
half-breeds and metis (as those of British
and French origin may be Distinguished
were estimated at 10000. Besides them,
there was a population Of uncertain num-
her scattered through the territories, and
a tribe Of half-breed hunters with one
early explorer deemed to be 6,O00 strong.
In 1878 DR.. G. NJ. Dawson, while engaged
in the British North American Boundary
Commission, came upon a camp OF the
latter body, consisting of 200 buffalo skin
tents and 1900 horses. DR.. Wilson con
siders the rise in this way of an indepen-
dent tribe of half-breeds as "one of the
most remarkable phenomena connected
with the grand chronological experiment
which has been in progress on the North
American continent for the three last cen
turtles.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1887-03-05
uniointed Chat.

Barbed-wire is the lame of a favorite
drink in Mount Pleasant, Iowa.
A creamery association, with $4,000
capital, is a new association at Lisbon.
Brookings is charged with being the
heavies. m~ortgaged county south Of the
46th parallel, counting the mortgaged in
debtness of farmers and business men.
A mine of varigated marble has been
discovered near Hot Springs. The stone
is most beautiful, easily worked and is
there in large quantities.
Groton college, established in 1885, has
just opened its second term with 81 xty-fve
students; its faculty comprises five pro-
fessors and two instructors.
Wolves were never known to be SO bold
or 50 plenty III Bookings county as at
present. 4 proposition for q general hunt
to reduce their number is meeting with
universal tayor.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1887-03-05

mourn for him; he was going to the lana
of the Great Spirit; he was old and could
not have lived long anyway. Ta-zoo (Red
Otter) who was listening, gave the inter
prefer a wink as he said:
Eyes, tell our friends that We are all go
ing to the good place but the way is long,
and it may take some Of US a long time to
get there"
The military force detailed for the oc-
casion consisted of detachments OF the
Sixth. Seventh, Ninth and Tenth regiments
Of infantry, Capt. Whites company OF
mounted rangers, in all about 800 men.
The gaIlows which was 90 feet square was
| constructed of heavy square timbers IN
| such a manner that the drop was sustain
ed by a single rope running down a Beam
| il tile centre and secured underneath the
| platform, so that a blow from the eAecu-
toner's axe would let the whole lot swing
at the same moment. Upon reaching the
place OF execution the Indians assembled
and Ut once commenced the deaih song
and dance, continuing this until the drop
fell. When all was ready Maj. Brown,
signal officer, beat three sharp taps upon
the drum, and William DAILY, Of the scouts
cut the rope with his keen-edged axe, and
the 80 wretched Sioux paid the penalty q
their horrid crimes. Ratsling Thunder
was a giant in stature, weighing 25e
pounds, and this great strain was too much
for the strength of the rope and It gave
way, the body falling to the ground, but
it was found on examination that his neck
was broken. The bodies were buried in q
long deep trench on the bank of the river.
but many Of them were soon eAhumed
and taken east for the dissecting table.